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Across India, opposition building against citizenship law
By Sheikh Saaliq and Emily Schmall — December 17, 2019
(RNS) — Critics say the legislation, which for the first time conditions Indian citizenship on religion, violates the secular constitution of the world's largest democracy.
Muslim inmates sue over combined faith services in Arkansas prisons
By Aysha Khan — March 4, 2019
(RNS) — Muslim prisoners say the Arkansas Department of Correction requires them to attend a combined Friday prayer service with members of the Nation of Islam and Nation of Gods and Earths.
Kansas trio plead not guilty in plot to bomb apartment, mosque
By Jerome Socolovsky — October 18, 2016
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (Reuters) Three men charged with plotting to bomb an apartment building in western Kansas where Muslim immigrants from Somalia lived and had a mosque plead not guilty but remain in jail.
German anti-Muslim group founder in court over hate speech
By RNS staff — April 19, 2016
BERLIN — Lutz Bachmann, the co-founder of Germany's anti-Islam PEGIDA group , is charged over sending social media posts in which he called refugees "cattle," "garbage" and "scumbags."
After attacks, Muslims in Paris fear being targeted anew
By Elizabeth Bryant — November 16, 2015
PARIS (RNS) Scattered anti-Muslim acts -- graffiti daubed on mosques, stones thrown at a kebab restaurant, “death to Muslims” scrawled on a wall of a Normandy town -- have already been reported since Friday’s attacks.
Rally against Islam outnumbered by counterprotesters
By Niraj Warikoo — October 12, 2015
DEARBORN, Mich. -- "Democracy worked the way it was supposed to," Police Chief Ron Haddad said. "Both sides were civil. ... That's what this country is all about."
U.S. Muslims mobilize to prevent Boston backlash
By David Gibson — April 16, 2013
(RNS) No sooner had the reality of the Boston marathon bombing sunk in than Muslim activists began sending out news releases and tweets condemning whoever was responsible. It's a familiar sprint for these groups as some were blaming Muslims for the bombings.
Anti-Shariah bill defeated in Oklahoma senate
By Tracy Gordon — April 6, 2012
(RNS) The Oklahoma state senate voted Thursday (April 5) to kill a bill that would have prohibited state judges from considering foreign laws, including Islamic law, in their decisions. By Omar Sacirbey.
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